This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fast Forward Alabama Pro-Life Law Compared Abortion To Holocaust
Update, May 16: The combined bill was passed by the state legislature and signed into law on Wednesday, May 15 by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. (JTA) — Alabama state lawmakers drew comparisons between the Holocaust and abortion in bills introduced earlier this month. Sen. Greg Albritton and Rep. Terri Collins, both Republicans, introduced matching bills…
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Fast Forward Chemistry Professor Takes Leave After Quizzing Students On Nazi Gas Chambers
A chemistry professor at Middlebury College in Vermont has taken a leave of absence after asking students in a test to calculate the lethal dose of poison gas used by the Nazis in the Holocaust. The test, issued at the beginning of the month, described hydrogen cyanide as “a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used…
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News A Frail Survivor’s Idiosyncratic Collection Of Holocaust Artifacts Needs A Home
What do you do with 665 pieces of the Holocaust? That’s the question facing Edie Mermelstein, the daughter of survivor, human rights activist and collector of Holocaust artifacts Mel Mermelstein as the latest Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – approaches on May 1. Since 1972, Mel has displayed his pieces as a teaching tool…
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Fast Forward Arkansas College Honors Alleged Holocaust Denier With Scholarship
The Anti-Defamation League is alleging that a professor at an Arkansas college, who left money for a scholarship in his name, was a committed Holocaust denier, Insider Higher Ed reported. Michael Arthur Link was a professor of history at Arkansas Tech University for 51 years, until his death in 2016. He left $190,000 in his…
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Fast Forward Polish Nationalists Use Anti-Semitic Rhetoric At New York Protest
NEW YORK (JTA) — Polish nationalists protested in New York City against a bill designed to help Holocaust survivors and their descendants reclaim lost property in Poland. Hundreds of people participated in the protest on Sunday in Foley Square and some employed anti-Semitic rhetoric. One protester held a sign calling to the “stop Holocaust industry,”…
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Fast Forward Vintage German Train Car Brought To New York For Auschwitz Exhibit
A vintage German train car — similar to those used to cart Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust — will soon be on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The eight-decade-old car arrived on Sunday morning and was lowered onto tracks outside the museum in…
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Opinion Stop Appropriating Atrocities To Talk About Russian Meddling
These days, reckless analogies are rampant, and not just in the Donald Trump White House. After the Robert Mueller investigation disproved collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, the White House sent a letter to media producers, naming six prominent Russian collusion promoters, and asking outlets to consider their trustworthiness when inviting them on. In…
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Culture At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
In Berlin, you literally stumble onto the history of the Holocaust. It’s paved into the sidewalks as golden Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, that gleam bright with that nation’s dark history, spelling out the names of Nazism’s victims. Stroll through the Tiergarten, and you’ll see the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism…
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